My head still hurts after so many years of reading about knadal's knees.

Me thinks he should go visit a competent naturopathic doctor to remedy his condition.
Modern medicine has failed this young man miserably - PRP comes to mind. It's time he considers acupuncture (not even as painful as PRP injections), some chiropractic manipulation such as vertebral subluxation and a steady treatment of magnetotherapy. Magnetotherapy-type bands can be worn over the knees, thereby strengthening his musculature in that area and since he's been wearing knee bandages for so long, shouldn't be uncomfortable.

If any of you guys have read his book, Nadal has a foot problem which means he has to wear special insoles to even be able to play. The insoles cause his movement to put extra strain on his knees, so no matter what, his knees are always going to have extra strain on them, even if he moved as gracefully as Federer.

I think it's a misconception that his style of play is what causes his knee problems. There are plenty of players out there who grind even more than Nadal, and their knees are just fine.

If any of you guys have read his book, Nadal has a foot problem which means he has to wear special insoles to even be able to play. The insoles cause his movement to put extra strain on his knees, so no matter what, his knees are always going to have extra strain on them, even if he moved as gracefully as Federer.

I think it's a misconception that his style of play is what causes his knee problems. There are plenty of players out there who grind even more than Nadal, and their knees are just fine.

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I know, I've been trying to drive that point through a few times. But people just ignore what they want to ignore. Still, fact is his knee problems have nothing to do with "style of play". It makes sense, otherwise other superlative defensers like Murray, Djoko and Ferrer would all have their knees shot as well. (And ironically, Ferrer has had his most successful season at 30 years old!)

If any of you guys have read his book, Nadal has a foot problem which means he has to wear special insoles to even be able to play. The insoles cause his movement to put extra strain on his knees, so no matter what, his knees are always going to have extra strain on them, even if he moved as gracefully as Federer.

I think it's a misconception that his style of play is what causes his knee problems. There are plenty of players out there who grind even more than Nadal, and their knees are just fine.

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I think so. "Main" factor of it is the condition he was born with.
All players in this generation have to grind out a lot of points.
Nadal actually has lots of easy points due to his lefty's advantage.

Maybe Federer is most efficient in his serving games and that helps his
longevity but...

Good news, Djokovic has no idea how to beat Nadal at Roland Garros, even when Nadal had his knee numbed in 2012, and even after Djokovic had the biggest mental edge anyone has ever seen. That's how far ahead of the pack Nadal is at Roland Garros.

I know, I've been trying to drive that point through a few times. But people just ignore what they want to ignore. Still, fact is his knee problems have nothing to do with "style of play". It makes sense, otherwise other superlative defensers like Murray, Djoko and Ferrer would all have their knees shot as well. (And ironically, Ferrer has had his most successful season at 30 years old!)

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There is more in this though. Nadal moves very well but doesn't get aligned behind the ball as efficiently as Murray, Joker & Federer. When he hits on the run he is often not in alignment. Unfortunately I would have to post lots of video on here to support this and this is my opinion only.

Having written that I don't think anybody is really aligned perfectly when defending, Joker looks like he will sometimes snap in half, Murray grabs the back of his leg, federer looks like it really annoys him that he has to defend!

I have discounted Ferrer because I don't think he really defends, under pressure from Djoker he just hit less hard but no real defensive digging or lobs, slices, junk balls. He plays a great game left, right, corner to corner..all day long...against anyone bar the top 4 on medium, slow courts-very effective. But those guys have seen it all before & know how to break it down. The defense has to be better sometimes.

Point taken with Rafa's knees, they knew when he was 19 that he would get problems. He has been on borrowed time since then.Changing his movement pattern would have been useless, beefing up his serve, shortening points, coming in & volleying made more sense.
Just hope he can get back & compete at RG & Wimbledon, try to duck major hardcourt swing & just do what he can.
If he can't the game has lost a great champion.

He better be, or else this year he becomes the first man in history to win slams for 9 years in a row. Watching Nadal own that record would make a mockery out of the 'early retirement theorists' such as yourself....

Just because his knees are in pain doesn't mean he can't play tennis as well as ever. Every NFL player and most NBA players play in pain. What would reduce his effectiveness is if the injury causes him to be less mobile. I don't know one way or the other about that, we will see how he comes back, but I'm sure he is truly in pain
He could always just trim his schedule to clay and grass with an occasional hard-court event that might be important to him.

If any of you guys have read his book, Nadal has a foot problem which means he has to wear special insoles to even be able to play. The insoles cause his movement to put extra strain on his knees, so no matter what, his knees are always going to have extra strain on them, even if he moved as gracefully as Federer.

He better be, or else this year he becomes the first man in history to win slams for 9 years in a row. Watching Nadal own that record would make a mockery out of the 'early retirement theorists' such as yourself....

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Will you just never stop!?
I feel sick every time I come across one your stupid posts.

Tell us something new. Knee, foot, long season, too much drug testing, too many hard court events, 2 yr ranking, indoor is not real tennis.... All this guy does is complain.

Perhaps he should take up fly fishing as a sport since he likes it so much. Oh wait, if he started competing, perhaps he would find excuses there too....water is too cold, Mirka is scaring the fish away, injured finger, carpal tunnel syndrome.

Murray was basically born with a broken kneecap why doesnt anyone ever make big news of this? ...

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Because it doesn't give him anywhere near the problems Nadal's foot and knees give him? Because it hasn't kept him out the game for several stretches of time with the latest injury time out lasting nearly a year?

He's gonna try his best to come back, despite the pain. That's all he can do at the moment. I hope he knows he has his fans' 100% support in this endeavor, no matter what the outcome happens to be.

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He must be petrified of some of his fans on Twitter. They are downright embarrassing and they practically stalk Nadal. You have grown women and men who do nothing but talk about Nadal ALL day on Twitter. These are grown people, what kind of behavior is that? It is sickening. Nadal must laugh his *** off at these type of fans.

He must be petrified of some of his fans on Twitter. They are downright embarrassing and they practically stalk Nadal. You have grown women and men who do nothing but talk about Nadal ALL day on Twitter. These are grown people, what kind of behavior is that? It is sickening. Nadal must laugh his *** off at these type of fans.

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Wow. I have only been on his Twitter a couple of times when he first started it up, but I have never posted anything on there. What's the kind of stuff do they say? Hopefully, he won't be able to read it anyway if they post it in English.

Wow. I have only been on his Twitter a couple of times when he first started it up, but I have never posted anything on there. What's the kind of stuff do they say? Hopefully, he won't be able to read it anyway if they post it in English.

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You have to go on Twitter and check it out. There are some real deranged and obsessive fans. Federer has those type of fans too. It is scary and I can just imagine Nadal and Federer laughing their a$$es off at these type of fans. It is all well and good to be a fan of a player and support that player but many of these people live and breathe these players. They talk about crying all day when they hear of Nadal's latest injury problem and how they can't cope, etc. etc. These people need professional psychological help. You would laugh your head off, check it out.